UW-Whitewater’s current Athletic Director, Amy Edmonds, is reportedly out as head of UW-Whitewater’s athletic programs. The report notes that she’s being demoted to associate athletic director (at a significant cut in salary).
There’s no certainty that she would, in fact, remain in a subordinate role following the apppointment of an interim director, let alone a permanent one.
See, http://royalpurplenews.com/19898/news/athletic-director-to-be-replaced/.
Edmonds was appointed interim director, and later permanent athletic director, during then-Chancellor Richard Telfer’s tenure. Edmonds and Telfer are now co-defendants in a federal defamation lawsuit from former wrestling Coach Timothy Fader. See, Former Coach Fader Files Federal Lawsuit Against UW-Whitewater Officials.
For more about Edmonds from FREE WHITEWATER, see, Coach Timothy Fader, Vindicated, Former Coach Fader Vindicated Five Times Over, Chancellor Telfer & UW-Whitewater Officials: Why Wait 147 Days?, and Questions on Assault Reporting, Formality, and Former UW-Whitewater Wrestling Coach Fader.
One wonders if this is fallout from Coach Fader’s suit? Too bad there isn’t a way to claw back some benefits from Telfer, too, since he was equally involved in that fiasco.
Yes, he was, and he was involved in other related, administrative failures. In all these cases, individuals were ignored or ruined, or money wasted, for one mediocre administrator’s selfish careerism (falsely cloaked as an institutional defense).
Good institutional leaders value the individuals on whom their institutions depend; the former chancellor was about as far from that as anyone in all the UW System.